Biological Realms in Computer Science

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Summary
Didier Verna keynotes on the bonds between biology and computer science, how these bonds developed over the years, and how software could behave like living organisms.

Bio

Dr. Didier Verna has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an assistant professor for EPITA, Paris. Verna is a member of the European Lisp Symposium steering committee and a program committee member for International Lisp Conference, European Lisp Symposium, Dynamic Languages Symposium, Context-Oriented Programming workshop, and ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

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Very interesting talk!! It would've been nice to mention Erlang and its processes control in the 'repair and maintainance' part, as that's a very unique thing Erlang 'invented' or 'discovered' if you want :)